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BY T. L. GANTT.
BRIEFLETS.
The World in a Nat Shell-Latest News.
—China has a paper 1,000 years old.
—Milburn, the t blind preacher, will
lecture the coming season.
—A San Francisco Baptist chnrch has
been sold for a Chinese brothel.
—Baden, Penn., boasts of a lady whose
hair is six feet ten inches in length.
—A woman has been sent to jail at
Montreal for whipping her husband.
—A house-fly has been known to carry
the measels from one house to another.
—Madame Nilsson recently sold a
number of hairs from her head at $lO
each.
—A Norristown girl, fourteen years
old, is hut two feet high and weighs only
eight pounds.
—A Michigan man recently sold his
wife, cow and household furniture for
fifty dollars.
—Of the 1898 who escaped out of the
“noble six hundred” who charged at
Balaklava, only 80 now survive.
—A London exhibition contains a wax
image of Theodore Tilton. One week it
is labeled Tilton, and the next Beecher.
—The\skeleton of a mastodon has just
been unearthed in Broome county, N.
Y., the tusks of which are ten feet in
length.
—An Illinois editor, who received a
horse-whipping, at once published an
extra of his paper, giving a full account
of the affair.
—ln a nest of robins found in Massa
chusetts are three white birds and one
cream colored. The old birds are of the
common hue.
—Call these hard times, do you ?
Why, here are SSO subscriptions pouring
in from all sides for the monument to the
dead mare, American Girl.
—A dense column of house-flies, which
took twenty minutes to pass a given
spot, passed through a New York town,
recently, southward bound.
—A Portland man and his wife have
separated because they could not agree
about who should pay the funeral expen
ses of a recently buried child.
—lt is predicted that by the Ist day
of January next, the Mississippi will
have cut anew channel near Vicksburg,
leaving that place two miles inland.
—A New York father recently discov
ered his long lost daughter in the “Wild
Woman,” who lias lor years been inhab
iting a cave in the mountains of that
State. She was entirely naked.
—A druggist in Bethel, Me., after clo
sing his store the other night, was atten
ded home by a large wild bear, which
made no threatening demonstrations, but
only left when he got inside the house.
—A Nebraska professor, through a
telescope, found that a flight of ’hoppers
were one mile thick, and by the telegraph
ascertained that they were four hundred
miles wide, and have been flying for five
days at the rate of one hundred mile3
per day.
—A scientist says the sun is constantly
increasing in size, and therefore increas
ing his attractive power, so that in time
he may have sufficient power to draw
our world and all other worlds of our
family into himself, and we may be mel
ted down to become a part of the sun.
—lt has been proposed to establish a
pigeon post between Europe and the
United States, and an ocean homing bird
of great docility has been discovered in
Iceland, which is said to be admirably
calculated for the purpose, being able to
fly at the marvelous rate of 150 miles an
hour.
—ln July, a diver in submarine armor,
working at a wreck on the coast of Nor
mandy, was seized by a devil-fish, which
held fast to a neighboring rock. His
comrade came to his assistance and was
seized also. It was only with great dif
ficulty that they could give the signal
that they needed help. Cutlasses were
brought, and the monster’s arms were
hewed off.
—A candidate for a vacant vicarage in
England announces an invention of his
own which may prove to be useful. It
is a peculiar arrangement of the pulpit,
with a clock to give warning. When at
the end of a half hour the clock sounds
an alarm, if the preacher does not con
clude in three minutes, down comes the
pulpit, with the parson and the rest of
the appendages.
—The Davenport (la.) Gazette of recent
date says that two women have been
traveling through that State selling cor
sets at unusually low prices. “ Indeed,”
adds that journal, “ their anxiety to give
ladies a perfect fit and the insignificant
reward they asked for their services exci
ted suspicion, Now not a lady in lowa
will admit that she has bought corsets in
six months, while the two peddlers have
resumed male attire and occupy dismal
cells in jail.”
—John Barney Wright, of Williams
town, who has been quite out of health
during the past summer, was relieved of
the cause of his illness by a powful emetic
administered by Dr. W. P. Niles, of
Pownal, which brought forth a lively
snake eleven inches in length. Wright
had probably taken the reptile while
slaking his thirst at some forest spring
during one of his numerous bear hunt
ing excursions. John says he would
rather meet a bear any tims than a snake,
and could swallow one with better relish.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1875.
DEVILTRIES.
The Raciest, Latest and Best Witlcisms.
—“ How sweet, but how bald for one
so young I” is what a nice young lady re
marked about an infant.
—“ I say, Bill, what’s the difference
between your watch and a hi l l-poster ?”
“ I give it up Juliat.” “ Well, one is a
Bill’s ticker and the other is a bill-stick
er.”
—The old ladies of Massachusetts are
petitioning Gov. Gaston not to hang Jesse
Pomeroy for the reason that in the pres
ent delicate state of his health it would be
impossible for him to survive the opera
tion.
—“ I’m two years older than you,” said
a little eight-vear-old girl to a New Bed
ford boy the other day. “ Well, I don’t
care,” was the reply; “ I’m going to
wear trousers soon, and that you'll never
do.”
—A negro suddenly finding himself
uuder fire during a skirmish in the late
waf, prayed. This is what he prayed :
“ Oh, Lord! if you’re eber gwine lo do
anything for dis old nigger, now's the
time.”
—A reporter being called to account
for a statement that a certain meeting
“ was a large and respectable one,” when
only one other person besides himself was
present, insisted that his report was liter
ally true ; for, said he, “ I was large, and
the other man was respectable.”
—An Irishman, on arriving in this
country, took a fancy to a Yankee girl,
and wrote to his wife : “ Dear Norah,
these melancholly lines are to inform
you that I died yerterday, and hope you
are enjoying the same blessing. I rec
commend you to marry Jeisie O’Rourke,
and take care of the ehilde \ From your
affectionate husband til death.”
—Snifkins staked his all on the result
of a game of euchre the other night and
lost. Throwing down the cards peevish
ly he broke forth in the following pathet
ic strain : “ Twas ever thus from child
hood’s hour, I’ve seen my fondest hopes
take flight, and every time I played the
left bower, someone took it with the
right.”
—“ Remember, madam,” said the geni
al hook agent, “ this work is a combina
tion of all the most theoretical and real
istic idioms evolved by a concatenation
of sophistical reasoninig from the brainial
developments of the most profound psy
chologists of the nineteenth centry ”
At this point the poor woman fainted,
and her son ran around to the back of the
house to unchain the hull-dog.
—Ton\Raikes was a dandy, but he
had had the small-pox, and the disease
had ravaged liis nose fearfu’ly. He sent
a scurrilous note to Count D’Orsay,
sealed with a wafer by the aid of a thim
ble. D’Orsay knew the writer, and the
next t:me he met Raikes in a crowd, sug
gested to him in a loud voice, that the
next time lie sent an annoyance note he
“he should not seal it with the end of
his nose.”
—A Danbury woman who has been
troubled with an aching tooth, which she
feared to have pul led because of the pain,
had it suddenly jumped out of her mouth
while she was eating her supper, the oth
er evening. There was asliarpexpksive
sound, and the wretched tooth flew clear
across the table. A number of medical
men have been to see her, but they could
not explain the phenomenon, and after
charging her five dollars each they went
away completely dumfounded.
—Daring the time when Clayton was
ruler of Arkansas, all Justices of the
to be appointed by his Excel
lency. One old neg"o, who thought he
knew enough to discharge the duties of
the office, called on the Governor to be
examined and receive his appointment.
Several questions were given him, all of
which he managed very well. But when
he was asked, “ what would you do in
case where a man had committed sui
cide ?” y He replied: “What would I
do sar? well, I’d make ’im s’eprt de
child.” He was appointed.
—“ Uncle Pete” was asked to subscribe
fifty cents to his parson’s salary yester
day. “ Can’t do it, I tell ye. Kase dere’s
mighty hard times’ proachin’ on hyar!”
“ Oh, no Pete, de craps is good, and we
hah plenty money dis winter !” “ You’se
a fool! How kin datbe when I heer Mr.
Jeemes up dar at de bank say dat de
Calorafornv Bank done busted, jis like
dat Freedman bank did? Can’t scribe
nuthin’, honey, but I’ll lend de preacher
my wood saw and buck, ef he wants to
yearn somfin.” This proposition was not
accepted.
—Brandon was a Western practitioner
of uncertain age, and whose steps, it often
occurred, were ditto. He was not hand
some, but on the contraryr his visage was
pock-marked, and he had a pug nose that
was a real curiosity. He could move it
to and fro with all the ease and dexterity
imaginable that it required in waving his
official hand over his law documents.
It was extreamely useful during fly-time.
On examining a lady witness not long
since, he asked her how old she was ?
“Sir, I am an unmarried woman, and I
don’t think it right to answer your ques
tion.” “ Oh, yes, inform the gentleman
how old you are,” said the Judge. “I
am fifty.” “ Are you no more ?”
“ Well, I am sixty.” “ Have you still a
desire for getting married?” queried
Brandon. “ Not if you are the only
man left,” was the reply.
A MISER'S DEN.
A Horrible Scene of Loathsomeness
and Misery—A Chinaman Worth
40,000 Rotting' in a Sub-Cellar.
[From the San Francisco Ledger.]
Now and then one picks up some old
book and reads about some noted miser,
whose excess of meanness has made him
historical. San Francisco can boast of a
miser beside whom all others are insig
nificant. Last night a Ledger reporter
went with a special officer to see the
most horrible specimen of a man who
lives on the globe to-day. “ You must
be startled at what you see,” sa'd the
officer, as they turned up Jackson street.
The two wended their way through the
Chinamen, and soon turned into an alley
near Dupont street. “ This is the most
horrible hole that ever existed in God’s
creation,” remarked the officer again,
and they turned into another alley run
ning up from the first. The place tvas
very narrow, and the buildings leaned
over at the top for a better acquaintance
—it seemed a sort of architectural socia
bility. The place was lined with broth
els and opium dens.
The lowest class of Chinese prostitutes
inhab.ted the rookeries, and their fat
faces peered from the windows, while
they showered a torrent of vile obscenity
upon the officer and his companion. The
stench of opium came up from their
dens, and the air of the miserable lair of
vice and filthiness was thick with a thou
sand disgusting odors. The alley nar
rowed at the end, while the fumes of
smoke grew thicker and the women viler.
Lamps made of wicks floating in a bowl
of grease, threw a straggling, hazy light
over the scene of absolute wretchedness.
Now and then a poor, emaciated Chi
naman glided like a ghost from one of
the dens and slid off in a haze. Men and
women staggered from one entrance to
another, and through the chinks of the
sidewalk and gratings, half closed with
rubbish, could be seen half-naked
wretches lying about low tables, stupe
fied with drugs, their bodies collecting
the poisonous vapors of the cellars, and
their minds floating away in paradise.
“ This way,” said the officer, and he
stepped down into a black hole which
looked like a place to throw refuse. The
reporter followed him down the stairs,
and then the officer lit a candle-end. The
place was a dirty cellar, about ten feet
square, and innumerable rats were dart
ing over the floor, which appeared to be
groud and old boards. The walls drip
ped with moisture, and the damp vapors
were very nearly stiffling.
“ Is this the place?”
“ No.”
“ Where, then ?”
“ In the next cellar below.”
The officer lifted up some boards in a
corner, and a rush of still fouler air came
up like the exhalation of a dissecting
sink.
“ Come on.” The officer began to go
down the ladder, and asked the reporter
to follow. It seemed like going down
into a grave infected with death. It
was not the proper thing for the reporter
to hesitate, however much he wished to,
and so he followed the officer down into
the hole. Here the candle barely burn
ed, and the officer lighting another han
ded it to his companion. The upper
cellar seemed like a front parlor com
pared to this. A sickening stench, more
fetid than the opium dens, and more
loathsome than the brothels, pervaded
the place like a misty substance. The
reporter placed a handkerchief to his
mouth and breathed through it. The
walls were trickling with moisture, and
the floor was slippery with slime. In a
corner was the object of the officer’s visit.
“ What do ye think of that ?”
The officer put his candle down to
ward the spot, and its rays fell upon the
face of the old man—so old that there
was no means of telling how long he
must have been born. He lay upon
some loose boards, with a piece of dirty
blanket thrown over him. The skin of
his face was drawn tight to his skull, and
a few straggling white hairs fell back
from his scalp. His body, wherever seen
from under the blanket, was covered
with loathsome sores, at which the rats
nibbled as they scrambled over him.
Now and then he moved his limbs, and
the horrible feasters fell off for a mo
ment and returned immediately. When
the light fell upon his face he opened his
eyes for an instant and closed them
again. His hands were those of a skele
ton, and the rats were gnawing at his
fingers, yet he seemed not to notice it.
The time seemed to have passed for him
to feel pain. His teeth were all gone,
and his cheeks almost met in his mouth.
A bowl of foul water was near his head,
which he had been using to quench his
thirst.
“ What does he eat?”
“ Rats,” said the officer, and poking
the debris with a stick, he showed the
reporter the bones which he had picked
clean and thrown aside.
“ said he was a miser, I believe ?”
“ he has $40,000 in the bank.
Let’s go.”
When the alley above ground was
reached, the air, which half an hour be
fore was so horrible to breathe, now
seemed delicious in its freshness.”
Warren Hasting’s elephant, which
is a hundred years old, is being fed up
to be ridden by the Prince of Wales when
he visits Lucknow,
AMONG THE INDIANS.
Brutal Performances at the Red Cloud
Council— Some of Sir. Lo*s Refined
Amusements.
The most brutal sight one can witness
in the Indian country is only afforded
when the “ Sun Dance” occurs, and its
brutality is sueli that one only cares to
see it once, and would then gladly forget
its hellish orgies. For several days the
Sioux, Cheyennes and Arapahoes have
been making grand arrangements for
this dance, and yesterday came the
finale. For twenty-four hours previous
a general dance and singing had been
going on at the camp, five miles above
here; at times as many as two hundred
warriors were in the happy circle, while
three big drums gave out noise enough
to start three or four pandemoniums, with
the not very musical voices of a large
number of squaws thrown in to add an
additional feature of the horrible. The
object of the “ Sun Dance” is to test the
courage of the young warriors to endure
physical pain, under the most trying cir
cumstances, the one enduring most com
ing out with the barbaric honors. At ten
o’clock, seventeen young warriors, strip
ped entirely naked, save a limited breec.h
clo'it, came into the circle and were ope
rated upon. This operation was perform
ed by a Medicine Man, horribly rigged
out. The first one to come up was a mag
nificent looking fellow from the Chey
ennes, all hone and muscle, and in glori
ous health. The Medicine Man first cut
four gashes about three inches long on
the shoulders, near the point. With a
smooth stick of hard wood he made a hole
underneath the slits he had cut, each ta
king in an inch or more in width, and
through which hole he passed a buffalo
thong and tied it tightly. Then the
breast was served the same manner, after
which one thong was fastened to a four
teen-foot pgle. To the other thong was
tied a large beef head—a long-horned
Texan, with about ten foot of thong be
tween the back and the bead. The young
warrior then jumped into a lively dance,
getting a song of some sort in keeping
with the performance, jerking that bull
head around so fast that at times it was
four or five feet above the ground—all
the time pulling as best he could at the
thong fastened to the pole by jumping
back and swinging upon it. At times the
flesh on back and breast seemed to stretch
out about eight or ten inches, and when
let up would close down with a pop. The
ropes in the breast fastenings were the
first to break, one breaking at the top of
the cut, the other at the lower end. The
top one hung down full four inches, and
this the Medicine Man cut off dexterously.
It was put through an incantation, when
the bloody, sweaty warrior was put
through a race of about forty yards with
that bull-head hanging to his back.
At one bound the horns stuck well in the
ground, and with a vigorous pull the
thongs broke, and a warrior was made.
He was a terrible looking object, and so
nearly exhausted that he had to he help
ed away. During the last half of his
torture he uttered not a word, nor did he
open his mouth, nor even wince. His
wounds were washed and bound up, pres
ents made to him of horses and robes, and
he recognized as a brave man. There
were sixteen more performances of like
nature, save that no other ones took the
double ties on back and breast. Thrteen
were tied by the back, the others by the
breast. The fat fellows got away with
business very quickly, but the lean, lank
and more muscular fellow had long and
tough jobs with it. One fellow, break
ing in a frantic effort, and falling under
the heels of my horse, resulted in a peeled
head for the Indian, as well as a sore
back. I confess that I only remained to
see two of the victims go through the
ordeal, gaining from my companion, a
half-breed interpreter, the statistics con
cerning the fat and lean fellows who
had enough Indian in them to stomach
the whole of the bloody brutality. The
warriors who went through the ordeal
were all from the North—those who have
but little to do with the whites, and that
little mostly in the way of scalps and
horse-stealing. The more civilized fel
lows have learned better than to make
such confounded fools of themselves.
Escape of a Female Monster.
On Thursday night Mme. Fortmeyer,
sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment,
made her escape from prison in Jefferson
City, Mo., by forcing her body through
over the transom of her cell. Mme.
Fortmeyer was convicted at the April
term of the St. Louis Criminal Court of
the murder of a young girl named Lena
Miller and her infant child by malprac
tice. After her arrest a search was made
of her house, and the charred bones of
two infauts were found in a stove in her
bed-room. She confessed to a detective
that one of the infants was that of Lena
Miller, which she had burned alive. A
number of horrible developments follow
ed, showing the accused to be a monster,
it being a practice of hers to burn every
child delivered by her, whether dead or
alive. There is reason to believe that
she murdered and burned fifty infants
during the prosecution of her inhuman
business in St. Louis.
Great snakes! Down in Arkansas they
recently killed a rattlesnake twenty feet
long,twenty-four inches around the girth,
three or four inches between the eyes,
and which made a track of eight and
three-fourth inches.
VOL. II—NO. 4.
HUMOR.
George 'Washington Xo. 2.
The passenger, who was going down
the big river for the first time in his life,
secured permission to climb up beside
the pilot, a grim old grayback who never
told a lie in his life.
“ Many alligators in the river?” inquir
ed the stranger, after a look around.
“ Not so many now, since they got to
shootin’ ’em for their hides and taller,”
was the reply.
“ Used to be lots, eh ?”
“ I don’t want to tell you about ’em,
stranger,” replied the pilot, sighing heav
ly-
“ Why ?”
“ Cause you’d think I was a-lyin’ to
you, and that’s sumthiu’ I never do. I
kin cheat at kcerds, drink whisky or
chaw poor terbacker, but I can’t lie.”
“ Then there used to be lots of ’em ?”
inquired the passenger.
“ I’m mosf*afraid to tell ye, Mister, but
I’ve counted ’leven hundred altygatersto
the mile from Vicksburg cl’ar down to
Orleans ! That was years ago, afore a
shot was ever fired at ’em.”
“Well, I don’t doubt it,” replied the
stranger.
“ And I’ve counted 3,459 of ’em on one
sand bar 1” continued the pilot. “It
looks big to tell, but a Government sur
sui veyor was aboard,and he checked ’em
off, as I called out.”
“ I haven’t the least doubt of it,” said
the passenger as he heaved a sigh.
1 “ I’m glad o’ that, stranger. Some
fellers would think I was a liar when I’m
telling the solemn truth. This used to
be a paradise for alligators, and they
were so thick that the wheels of the boat
killed on an average of forty-nine to the
mile.”
“ Is that so ?”
“ True as Gospel, mister I I used to
almost feel sorry for the cussed brutes,
cause they’d cry out e’en most like a hu
man being. We killed lots of ’em, as I
said, and we hurt a pile more. I sailed
with one captain who alius carried a
thousand bottles of liniment to throw
over the wounded ones !”
“ He did?”
“ True as you live, he did. I don’t
’spect I’ll eyer see another such a kind,
Christian man. And the alligators got
to know the Nancy Jane, and to know
Capt. Tom, and they’d swim out and rub
their tails against the boat an’ purr like
cats an’ look up and try try to smile!”
“ They would ?”
“ Solemn truth,” stranger. “ And
once when we ground on a bar, with an
opposition boat right behind, the alliga
tors gathered around, got under her stern,
and humped her clean over the bar by a
grand push !” It looks like a big story,
but I never told a lie yet, and I never
shall. I wouldn’t lie for all the mon
ey you could put aboard this boat.”
There was a paini'ul pause, and after
awhile the pilot continued :
“ Our injines gin outonce, and a crowd
of aligalors took a towline and hauled
us forty-five miles up stream to Vicks
burg !”
“ They did ?”
“ And when the news got along the
river that Capt. Tom was dead, every al
ligator in the river daubed his left ear
with mud as a badge of mournin’, and
lots of ’em pined away and d-ed !”
The passenger left the pilot house with
the remark that he didn’tdoubtthestate-
ment, and the old man gave the wheel a
turn and replied :
“ Thar’s one thing I won’t do for love
nor money, and that’s make a liar of my
self. I was brung up by a good mother,
and I’m going to stick to the trnth if
this boat doesn’t make a cent.”
More George Washingtons.
A few days since I stepped into the
village blacksmith shop at a time when
the conversation of the loungers was run
ning on the subject of big trees. I took
a seat on an elnpty nail keg, at the same
time remarking that, as far I was concern
ed, I had never beheld any giant of the
forest of so stupendous proportions, but
that I had seen it stated in the papers
that in California the trees were so tall
that it required two men and a small
boy to see to the top of them, one looking
as long as he could and the next com
mencing where he left off, and so on
until the top was reached. “ That’s noth
ing,” said Joe Ponnybecker; “ when I
was down in Montgomery county I saw a
tree which had a circumference so large
that it took a very fast walker fifteen
hours to make the circuit.”
“ Gentlemen,” interrupted Jesse Lin
gore, the blacksmith, dropping his ham
mer and tongs and resting one foot upon
the anvil, “ all I have to say is that Mr.
Calkerpit and Mr. Ponnybecker might
both just as well hang up their fiddles,
because I saw a tree out in the western
country which, after it was cut off the
stump, was six weeks in falling to the
ground.”
A Lewiston (Me.) man boasts that he
traded horses nine times in one day, and
at night he had the same horse he star
ted with in the morning, $45 in money, a
watch worth S2O, a double-barrelled shot
gun and four bushels of potatoes.
When William Flemming, a Monroe
(Conn.) Enoch Arden, reached home the
other day after a four years’ unexplained
absence, instead of dissolving in tears,
he swore like a pirate because his wife
had not married again,
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T WILL COLLECT TAXES AT THE
1 times and places following:
Sandy Cross (morning), J.J. Green’s (even
ing)—Oet. 25th Nov. 22d.
Maxey’s—Oct. 27 anq N\f 10.
Bairdstown—Octobe*-og ’ November 11.
Woodstock—Oetoiler Jo November 12.
Amis’ Mill—October J 6 and November 13.
Goose Pond—November 1 and 15.
Antioch—November 3 and 17.
Harrow’s Mill—November 4 and 18.
\\ interville (inoruim:', Bcaverdara (evening).
—November 5 and 19.
Pleasant Ilill—November 6 and 20.
Glade—November 8 and 24.
Lexington— Every Tuesday.
tnov24 J. G. IIARTSFIELD, T. C. O. C. :
Administrator’s Sale.
/A EORGIA, OGLETHORPE COUNTY.—
Hv virtue of an order of the Court of Or
dinary of said county, will be sold Indore the
Court House door, in the town of Lexington,
Oglethorpe county, on the FIRST TUESDAY
IN NO\ EMBER, 1875, In*tween the legal
hours of sale, the following projiertv, belong
ing to the estate of It. R. Mitchell, late of
said county, deceased, to-wit:
All rimt'tract or parcel of LAND, contain
ing Fifty-three and Two-thirds acres, more or
less, situated, lying ami being in the conntv
ot Madison, in said .State, adjoining Mrs. Lar
kin Hardman, Newton White and William
Chandler.
—AT.so— f
The following Lots of Wild Lands: One Lot of
Land, containing Forty Acres, No. 347, 15th
District, 2nd Section, of Cherokee county ;
one Lot in the county of Fannin, containing
One Hundred ami Sixty Acres, No. 273, 6th
District, Ist section; one Lot containing One
hundred and Sixty Acres, in the county of
Gilmer, No. 118, 26th District, 2d section;
One Lot in the county of Murray, containing
IGO Acres, No. 102, 26th District, 2nd Section.
—ALSO—
One other Lot in the county of Murrav, con
taining 160 Acres, No. 10, 26th Dist., 2if Sect.;
one other lot in said county of Murray, con
taining 160 Acres, No. 150, in the 29th Dis
trict and 2d Sect.; one Lot in Union county,
containing 160 Acres, No. 162, 10th Dist., Ist
Sect.; also, one other Lot in Union countv,
containing 16(1 Acres, No. 177, in the ISth
District, 2d section ; and one Lot
Forty Acres, in the county of Polk, No. 1186,
in the 21st District and 3d’ Section.
All of the above Lands sold for the benefit
of the creditors of said cCate. Terms cash.
This 29th September, 1875.
GEO. H. LESTER,
Administrator of R. R. Mitchell, deceased.
Administrator’s Sale.
BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER FROM THE
Court of Ordinary of Oglethorpe county,
Georgia, there will be sold before the Court
House door, in the town of Lexington, in sais
county, within the usual hoars of sale, on the
First. Tuesday in November, 1875, the follow
ing lands, belonging to the estate of Richard
Dillard, late of said county, deceased, to wit:
No. 1 being a tract containing 2101'ftcres more
or less, and known as the Home Place, with
improvements thereon, and adjoining lands
of A. C. Daniel and W. Gauldiiig. No. 2Jbe
ing a tract containing 209-i acres,more or les- ,
and known as the place whereon Isaac R. Hall,’
Jr., now lives, and adjoining lands of the
Georgia railroad and W. P. X* irtin. No 3 be
ing a tract containing 1101 acres, more or less;
and adjoining Nos. 1 and 2 and lands of J.
W. McCall a. No. 4 being a tract containing
139 acres, more or less, adjoining Nos. 2 ana
3, and lands of the Georgia Railroad, of A. F/
Pope and W. Gauldiiig,
All of said lots laid off by recent stfrvey of
said lands, and the plats of the same can be
seen on application to the undersigned.
All of said lands sold for the benefit of the
heirs and creditors of Richard Dillard, de
ceased. Terms cash.
This September 28th, 1875.
ISAAC R. HALL, Jr., ■
RICHARD F. DILLARD, -
Administrators of Richard Dillard, deceased/
octl-td
Administrator’s Sale of Land.
By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of Oglethoq** county,
Georgia, there will he" sold before the Court
House door, in the town of Lexington, in said
countv, between the legal hours of sale, on
the FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER,
1875, the following tract of LAND, to-wit:!
The place O. Fleeman, late,
of said county, deceased, resided at the time
of her death, and known as her dower. Said
land lying in said county, and containing
Three Hundred and Eighty-three and One-,
third (383 J) Acres, more or less, and adjoin
ing lands of E. B, Carter, Janies M. Busbin,
and others.
Sold as the lands belonging to the estate of
John S. Fleeman, late of said county, de
ceased.
Sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors
of said estate.
Terms made known on the dav of sale.
WILLIAM J. FLEEMAN,
Administrator, De bonis non,
of John S. Fleeman.’
QTATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
O COUNTY. —Petition for Letters of
Guardianship. Whereas, Sarah Tuek ap
plies to me for Letters of Guardianship on the
person and property of Rob’t J,Tuck, minor :
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all and singular, kindred and friends of said
minor, to be and appear at my office, on or
before the first Monday in November, 1875 J
to show cause, if any they have, why said
Letters should not he granted.
Given under my hand and official signature,’
at office in Lexington, this stli dav of October ’
1875. THOMAS D. GILHAM, Ordinary.
Notice in Bankruptcy.
District court of the united/
STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DIS
TRICT OF GEORGIA. —In the matter of
John W. Gunter. Bankrupt—No 934.
All persons interested are notified to show,
cause, if any they have, before Register Albert
G. Foster, at his office in Madison, Ga., on the
sth day of November, 1875, at 12 o’clock m.,’
why said bankrupt should not be discharged
from all his debts.
The second and third meeting of creditor*
will be held at the same time and place.
It. A. E. BUCK, Clerk.
FOR SALE!
IOOK OUT, OR YOU WILL LOBE A
J great bargain, as I now offer for sale the
BEST BUSINESS STAND in the country,’
on the Clarksville road, 9 miles from Athens,'
on the Northeastern Railroad—a splendid
Country Store-house!
a good Dwelling-house, with seven rooms and
four fire-places; a good Well of water and
good Garden, all in good order; a splendid
Barn, with 10 horse-stalls ; Blacksmith and
Wood Shops; a splendid Gin-house, with \
rooms and new press; 22J Acres Land —10
acres in good state of cultivation—balance in
woods; good neighborhood ; 2 Churches in It
miles, good School convenient and a Post Of
fice at the place. . ,
Any person wanting a country stand for
selling goods and running public shops and.
gin, should call and see me before buying
elsewhere. I will also sell stock and fixtures
on hand below cost. For further particulars
call and see me at my store, Coop*y- P. 0.,’
Jackson county, Ga. ' C. H. SXftfTII.
All persons indebted to me will pleas
come forward and settle, by or before Ist of
November, as mv books will be closed on
that day. * C. H. SMITH,
sep24-lm Cooper P. 0., Ga.’
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